Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Chapter 48 The Benefits Of Listening To The Sutra

At that time, after The World Honoured One had spoken of this Sutra and Dharma Door, one million and two thousand nayutas of billions of living beings in the heaven and on the earth obtained the Pure Dharma Eyes and arrived at the position of leaving filth and dust forever. Twenty billions of living beings obtained the fruition of Anagamin. Six thousands and eight hundreds of Bhikshus had completely cut off all the outflows from their roots and attained their liberation of the mind. Forty billions of Bodhisattvas who adorned themselves with magnificent vows, merits and virtues dwelt in the Unsurpassed Bodhi of No-retreat. Twenty-five billions of living beings attained to the patience of no-retreat. Four millions of billions of nayutas of hundreds of thousands of living beings who had not brought forth the mind for the Unsurpassed Bodhi, started to seek and bring forth their first resolve for Bodhi. They will plant all kinds of good roots and vow to be born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss in order to see Amitabha Buddha. They are going to be reborn in the Land of The Thus Come One. In different directions, everyone of them will become The Buddha in accord to their turns. All of them will have the same Name, that is The Thus Come One of Wondrous Sound. Morever, there are eight millions of kotis of nayutas of living beings in the Buddhalands in the ten directions who are to be born in the Pure Land to see Amitabha Buddha in their present lives or in the future. They will obtain the prediction of Patience In Dharma and arrived at the Unsurpassed Bodhi. These sentient beings have causes and conditions in connection to the Past Vows of Amitabha Buddha, so all of them are able to obtain rebirth in the Land Of Ultimate Bliss.

At that time, The Three Thousand Great Thousand World Systems shook in six ways and there appeared also all kinds of unique spiritual changes. There also shone forth the great bright light that pervasively illuminated the ten directions.

From empty space, there were the hevenly beings who played all kinds of wonderful music to the praise The Buddha. These voices of praise reached to the Heavens in Form Realm and all the heavenly beings were able to hear them clearly and they were filled with great joy for they had never encountered such an event like this. So, they rained down immeasurable wonderful flowers from the heavens.

The Honoured One, Ananda, Maitreya Bodhisattva, and all the Bodhisattavas and the Sound Hearers, the eight fold division of the Gods and dragons and all in the assembly were filled with great joy when they heard of the teaching of The Buddha. They believe, accept it, uphold it and put it into practice.

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